Today was one of those days where I never stopped... well I did stop but it felt like I didn't stop. I first went to the second grade "party" for graduation. I hate to say it but I must be Miss Scrouge 'cause I just feel like all these "parties" and "graduations" are silly.... Regardless, since I haven't done anything for The Son's class most of the year, I went to the party... which was held outside in the hot sun with no shade, no unrefined sugar ingestables and 20 8 year olds.

Work, work... conference call.. in the middle of which Bill Gates announced his upcoming retirement... late conference call... The Daughter and I raced to get to the beach to meet T, C & L. The first breath of air all day (as T called it, the counter pose to 7th series)... the first moment of peace... but, apparently, my aura is all messed up and I needed to wash away the remnants of civilization and I was coerced, though gently and with jest, to go in the water. See I hate the water here in So. Cal. I realize how wonderfully brilliant it is to live here but 65 degree water is flat out freezing and you'd be hard pressed to find a cold day in Hell in which I would immerse myself. We've been building up to the point of initiating my immersion into water during our various beach excursions... It started in Tulum... and today it was non-ceremoniously mentioned that perhaps I needed to be carried and dropped in. The Yoga Sutras tell us that future pain should be avoided so fearing the results of "the drop" I went in of my own will... and it was cold... really freakin' cold. But in I went... under one wave, then another..then another... and you know what I did feel refreshed and I did feel more clear (of course, the lifeblood could have just been frozen out of me, who knows)... funny... right again.

I forgot that Monday starts Teacher Training... 38 students... tight mat space.

At the beach The Daughter & L mostly caught ladybugs. Usually I give the stern lecture about removing "animals" from their homes but today I decided that if she wanted to spend a couple hours catching laydbugs, well, I'd help her out... so we created two Lady Bug Houses (out of used juice bottles)... and each child brought their Lady Bugs home... on the way home I stopped at the toy store and got this cool LadyBug necklace which was basically a plastic jar with a magnifier lens as the lid and air holes poked in it. I then got a "bug house" and we put two lady bugs in each small environment with leaves and sticks. The Daughter is SO proud of these... her first pets.

Tonight ended with the Annual End Of School Year Block Party... a fest of children and parents... pizza and beer... and it's 10 pm... I'm just sitting down. I think The Husband wants to do the first series class tomorrow so I will likely skip Mysore in an effort to be supportive of his attempts at yoga... Eh, Friday is a first series day anyway.